Brave New World: Did the Future Arrive Too Early?
Date: June 12 th 2015
Location: Casa da Música, Porto
url: http://ffms.pt/admiravelmundonovo
Some of the greatest international technology experts will be at Casa da Música to debate the new trends in the field and what the current increasing technological advancement will bring us. “Brave New World: Did the Future Arrive Too Early?”, organized by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, is a day-long event, with discussion four panels under the themes “Digital Me”, “Intelligent Life”, “Economy 2.0” and “Digital Republic”.
The opening remarks will be delivered by Manuela Veloso , professor at Carnegie Mellon University and former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. She is deeply involved in the CMU Portugal program, as a leader of an ERI project and advisor of several PhD students. Also among the long list of speakers are Evgeni Morozov , author and Slate columnist; Bruce Sterling , science-fiction author and Wired columnist; Ellen Jorgensen , Genspace director; Tyler Cohen , economist, professor and director of the Mercatus Center.
Agenda
8:00 Welcome Session
9:30 Opening Remarks
Manuela Veloso, Professor of Carnegie Mellon University
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Digital Me
David Brin, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Evgeni Morozo, Columnist for Slate
11:45 Intelligent Life
Ellen Jorgensen, Director for Genspace
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Economy 2.0
Tyler Cohen, Director for Mercatus Center
15:45 Digital Republic
Andrew Chadwick, Professor of University of London
Francisca Bria, Senior Project Lead of Nesta
Mário Campolargo, Director for “Net Futures” in DG CONNECT
17:00 Coffee Break
17:30 Jake Bowers Interviews Bruce Sterling
Jake Bowers, Professor of University of Illinois
Bruce Sterling, Columnist for Wired
18:15 Meeting Summary
Ana Lehmann, Professor of Católica-Lisbon School of Bussiness & Economics
18:30 Closing Remarks
Alexandre Soares dos Santos, Founder of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos
19:00 Special Feature from “Governo Sombra” TV show
Carlos Vaz Marques, João Miguel Tavares, Ricardo Araújo Pereira and Pedro Mexia
